You scramble onto your feet - or at least attempt to, your body feeling more sluggish than it had ever been in your life, each muscle numb yet burning with lactic fire. Making even the simple act of crawling forward a trial in itself, one that had tears pricking at the corners of your eyes at the absolute resolve-crushing pain of it. It felt like dying. It felt like dying while being burned alive.

But you manage it after a moment, your fingers somehow gaining purchase on the smooth floor in a series of ear-splitting whines, somehow leaving long furrows in the tempered plate glass. You ignore this as you stagger forward, forcing your entire body to move towards the screaming Seer and the dead Culexus in her arms.

No. No, it can't be. She can't be dead. Yuma can't be dead.

But you felt her die, as plain as day, just before reality came crashing back in a burning flood. Her farewell a pulse of open-armed acceptance.

Her soul burning away as the rest of her body collapsed into slack, powdery ash.

Chitose Yuma. A girl younger than you, cursed to depend on a confining leather suit to live, to function. Malal's prodigy. One of the few survivors of the last world-ending catastrophe that had threatened to destroy life as you know it. The Emperor's Champion of the Walpurgisnacht Crusade.

Now dead. Now gone. As lifeless as the skull that marked her helmet.

No happy endings. Not even for someone who clearly and desperately deserved it.

Something bars your staggering gait forward. You try and push past it, snarling something particularly tasteless in its face, but all you hear yourself say is hoarse, unintelligible mumbling. Your attempts at shoving whatever it was aside feeling more like weak, feeble nudging.

"Chiaki. CHIAKI!" You hear a familiar voice hiss in a desperate whisper, and it takes you a moment to recognize Sayaka's voice. It takes you another moment that the thing blocking your way is your Equerry. You blink once, twice, and finally the blur that she'd been resolves into something recognizable. "Relax. Just fucking relax, alright? Everyone got out. Everyone's safe. Even Oriko. We're getting her and Kyoko to sick bay right now. But I need you to stay calm and just fucking relax, alright? Just fucking relax--"

Haruka screams again, loud and long, the sound so full and ripe with anguish it had no right coming from something human. A keening wail that sounded much too similar to the screaming that continuously echoed in your ears in the Akashic Realm. The song of the hopelessly lost. The dirge of the forever damned.

Your breath sawing in and out of your body in ragged gasps, you finally get enough air to snarl a single word to your Equerry. A single word to tell her that she is lying to your fucking face, with the evidence of it sobbing brokenly a few feet from you, grasping the corpse of someone who simply wanted to do the right thing.

Sayaka doesn't budge. "Fine, it's bullshit. But I can't let you through, Chiaki. Please. Kyuubey wants me to get you to a Silent Room immediately." You hear her take a shuddering breath, feel her shoulders give a slight shudder. "J-just....just fucking cooperate, Chiaki. Please. I'm fucking begging you here."

"I can and I will." Kyuubey's voice, cold, colder than you've ever heard it before, suddenly thunders into your mind - and you turn to look at Kyuubey at his desk, his perfectly-round crimson eyes staring into yours. "Matsuda. Please allow acting Warmaster Miki Sayaka--"

You freeze at this. ACTING WARMASTER?!

"...Yes. Acting Warmaster." Kyuubey replies after a moment, before continuing on his frosty tirade. "Please allow acting Warmaster Miki Sayaka to escort you to a Silent Room, where your debriefing will take place. Upon the completion of that debriefing, deliberations will be made." A pause. "For everyone's sake, Matsuda, just cooperate. I do not wish to have to call the entire Eversor Rank just to subdue you."

Fucking--no. No, this isn't fucking real, this is insane! YOU'RE WARMASTER! WHY THE FUCK DO YOU NEED TO GO TO A SILENT ROOM, YOU'RE FINE--

A click, and a beep, and the wall behind Kyuubey's desk switches from displaying scrolling news feeds to a live camera feed - one that you immediately recognize as his own office. Mami. Wendy. Even Midori, who's trying her best to calm Haruka down, the girl still clinging to the fallen Culexus' corpse. Sayaka. And...

And...

You look down at yourself. At your hands. And then at the wings on your back.

...No. NO. FUCK.

"Go with Miki Sayaka, Matsuda. Please." Kyuubey says again. "Stay there until we can figure out just what happened here."

How do you respond?

[]Refuse. You are still Warmaster here, you're not a fucking prisoner. You'll stay here until shit gets figured out.[]Allow yourself to be escorted to your Silent Room. It's...probably the best thing to do right now. It's only temporary anyway, right?[]Concede, but with a condition. They can at least let you say goodbye to Yuma, for fuck's sake.

>>38191530>[x]Concede, but with a condition. They can at least let you say goodbye to Yuma, for fuck's sake.getting into an isolated space seems like a good idea in case something is still holding on to us from way over there. Antagonizing Kyubey doesn't seem like a good idea anyway, we still need his resources.

>>38191530[X]Allow yourself to be escorted to your Silent Room. It's...probably the best thing to do right now. It's only temporary anyway, right?Going near Haruka as she is right now seems like a bad idea.So does refusing to cooperate.

>>38191706Do you realize that this is no longer the time for chucklefucjery like that? That they can and will mobilize the entire Eversor Rank to take us down, and that Mami and Sayaka will be right there to put us down?

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>>38191955I never said that they were the same. My point is that TTO doesn't care about Chiaki or anyone related to her. She views herself as above humanity and will likely leave to follow her own goals if she gets the chance.

>>38192132Those are powers we only have access to when we give someone who doesn't give a shit about mortals the steering wheel to our body. Why the fuck would we teleport them to a time out if TTO is in control and it wants to eliminate Sayaka, Mami, and Kyouko as potential problems given their actions in previous timelines?

>>38192217>then maybe players wouldn't do stuff like that anymoreNo, that wouldn't work either. All that would do is cause the invested players to scream more loudly each time the stupid and lolsorandumb players pressed the Big Red Button because they think it's funny or it would "be more interesting".

>>38192194Considering that he can't know if TTO will take control of our meatbody and soulgem again in the middle of his office, and whatever we did caused the death of his last Culexus (regardless of what actually happened, that's how it looks like right now), putting Chiaki in a Silent Room and making Sayaka (the Equerry, the person who is supposed to take command if the Warmaster is compromised) is the reasonable thing to do.

Did you forget that WE asked to make Sayaka our Equerry so that she could take command if we were to do something really stupid or be compromised?Given our actions in the Akashic Realm, QB's decision makes perfect sense.

>>38192254>Charging a walking murder machine incarnate, when diplomacy had worked every single other time was, the good idea at the time.>Picking up the sword that had utterly driven EVERYONE that wielded it insane before the operation that would reder us not insane when we could have shot all of the bears instead, like was planned, was the good idea at the time.>HANDING OUR LIFE over to the enemy that we had come to kill was the good idea at the time.

Honestly at this point nothing more would please me than seeing /tg/ murder most if not all of its waifus, because it was a good idea at the time.

>>38192295>barely-an-acquaintance>Has her own redemption subplot>is directly responsible for Chiaki having bouts of amnesia>Shows up in multiple flashbacks where she plays a major role>BARELY>AN>ACQUAINTANCE

Holy shit ur dum. I would like to tell you to shut your whoremouth, but christ anon, u just plain dum.

>>38192412You're thinking only of Mirai. The reforming of the Soul Gem meant that not only could Malal and Madokami not help more, but that the information that Malal and Madokami had imparted to Mirai's soul, that we were supposed to get access to, was lost.

So it wasn't just Mirai, the barely known acquaintance we lost, it was Malal as well.

You look at Sayaka, then at Haruka - before finally looking back at Kyuubey. Staring back at the mutant cat bastard as hard as you can, matching the perfectly-round crimson eyes glare for glare.

Fine, you manage to say, your voice a raspy, raw-throated snarl. Fine, you'll go. You'll let yourself get escorted to a fucking Silent Room, like a fucking prisoner, if that's what it takes for things to settle down.

But you're not going without at least saying goodbye to Yuma. You deserve at least that much.

"No." Haruka manages to stop crying long enough to look up at you, her face an anguished mask of tears and fury. "No, you don't deserve ANYTHING. You don't deserve SHIT."

Midori, who'd been trying her best to calm Haruka along with Mami - the green-haired girl already in tears herself - looks up at you with a pleading look, before turning back to the distraught, disheveled seer. "Amane-san, p-please, this isn't Sempai's fault. She didn't want this to happen--"

"THIS IS ALL HER FAULT!" Haruka shrieks, her voice completely and utterly robbed of all its elegance and refinement. "I KEPT TELLING YOU! I KEPT TELLING EVERYONE, BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN!" She thrusts an ash-dusted arm at your direction, her eyes wild, her lips flecked with froth. "YOU ARE HARBORING THE DEVIL HERSELF! THE DEATH THAT COMES ON SWIFT WINGS! YUMA WAS THE FIRST, AND YOU'LL ALL BE NEXT--"

A sharp sound cuts Haruka off, one loud enough to quell all other sound in the room. A crack of flesh hitting flesh, delivered with enough conviction to forcibly turn the hysterical Seer's face to the side. The point of impact - Haruka's cheek - already reddening, a welt already developing there.

"I know you're grieving," You hear Midori say as she straightens up from her crouch to stand over Haruka. Her own kind of fury - an awkward but honest kind - radiating off her in waves. "And I know how it feels to lose someone important. I'll sit here and listen to anything you have to say, but..." She takes a deep breath here, her shoulders shaking briefly at the inhalation. "...I won't let you say those things about sempai. Do you understand?"

"..." Haruka glares up at your Callidus for what seems like an eternity, before turning away, burying her face into Yuma's chestplate. Continuing to muffle her cries there.

Midori...

"I don't really think it's the time, Chiaki. Come on." Sayaka tugs at your wrist in a gentle reminder, her voice low, quiet.. "The faster we get this all squared away, the faster we can get things back to normal. And I'll make sure you get to say goodbye to Yuma personally. I promise."

Yeah. Yeah, maybe...maybe this isn't the time.

Just as you allow yourself to be dragged away--

"Matsuda. One moment, please." Kyuubey calls, and the both of you stop in your tracks. You turn towards the Incubator, eyes narrowed.

What? You're going to your fucking Silent Room like a good little prisoner, what else does he fucking want?

>"THIS IS ALL HER FAULT!" Haruka shrieks, her voice completely and utterly robbed of all its elegance and refinement. "I KEPT TELLING YOU! I KEPT TELLING EVERYONE, BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN!" She thrusts an ash-dusted arm at your direction, her eyes wild, her lips flecked with froth. "YOU ARE HARBORING THE DEVIL HERSELF! THE DEATH THAT COMES ON SWIFT WINGS! YUMA WAS THE FIRST, AND YOU'LL ALL BE NEXT--"

"The Golden Weapons in your possession, Matsuda." Kyuubey's voice is as emotionless as it is cold. "Remove them from your Inventory and place them on the floor before you leave. The sword, the Desert Eagle, and the staff."

...So. It's come to this, then.

How do you respond?

[]Refuse. They're yours, and rightly so. You're not trusting anyone else with them. If they're worried, you'll put them in your vault yourself, on the way to your cell.[]Obey. Better to just cooperate for now with whatever the fuck they want.[]Smile coldly. "Everyone here knows how dangerous I am. My leaving them here doesn't make a fucking difference."

>>38192507>[X]Refuse. They're yours, and rightly so. You're not trusting anyone else with them. If they're worried, you'll put them in your vault yourself, on the way to your cell.We don't even know what is up with the staff yet.

>>38192507>[]Obey. Better to just cooperate for now with whatever the fuck they want.>Throw all three into the air, shrug and comment on the fact that you still have several working condition MiG-31s in your inventory

>>38192507>[x]Refuse. They're yours, and rightly so. You're not trusting anyone else with them. If they're worried, you'll put them in your vault yourself, on the way to your cell."Do you really want more Ahrimans running around?"

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>>38192456>>"THIS IS ALL HER FAULT!" Haruka shrieks, her voice completely and utterly robbed of all its elegance and refinement. "I KEPT TELLING YOU! I KEPT TELLING EVERYONE, BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN!" She thrusts an ash-dusted arm at your direction, her eyes wild, her lips flecked with froth. "YOU ARE HARBORING THE DEVIL HERSELF! THE DEATH THAT COMES ON SWIFT WINGS! YUMA WAS THE FIRST, AND YOU'LL ALL BE NEXT--"

Please, please, PLEASE make it so we can teach a lesson to this bitch sometime in the future!

>>38192507[X]Refuse. They're yours, and rightly so. You're not trusting anyone else with them. If they're worried, you'll put them in your vault yourself, on the way to your cell.

It's not like dropping them is going to work, anyways. They will find a way to us. They always find a way.

>>38192507>[x]Obey. Better to just cooperate for now with whatever the fuck they want.they are not stupid enough to try and do something to them. And if we really need them, the weapons will come to us anyway.

>>38192571>Please, please, PLEASE make it so we can teach a lesson to this bitch sometime in the future!Teach her what lesson?She's right, everything she's said is the truth, and she already knows that we're going to shoot her in the future.

>>38192507>[]Refuse. They're yours, and rightly so. You're not trusting anyone else with them. If they're worried, you'll put them in your vault yourself, on the way to your cell.

Even if QB doesn't agree with the ownership part, there's still the matter of them being extremely dangerous to handle by anyone who isn't us. That, and it is known that they can teleport to us at any moment without warning. Posturing isn't going to help anyone here.

>>38192507[]Obey. Better to just cooperate for now with whatever the fuck they want.Make sure Haruka doesn't make a dash for the Staff. We had to pry it from one grieving lover already today and I don't want to prove her prophecy right.

I do pray that decu's angle on the vote is that the golden weapons are nuclear kryptonite AIDS - ESPECIALLY the staff, which is an unknown quantity at this point - and that they need to be handled per protocol; i.e. delivered directly to the vault, not dumped on the floor. Preferably by the only person known to be capable of handling them without ill effect.

Stress that it'd be a bad, bad idea for anyone to touch that staff at all, and confirm that Kyuuby understands dumping it here means it's gonna be on his office floor, surrounded by sealing circles and shit, for the indeterminate future.

I know everyone's all pissed about Kyuuby being Kyuubey (i.e. not the most emotionally astute guy around) but he IS responding sanely - he doesn't know WHAT is up with Chiaki at the moment, so this is a combination of quarantine and interrogation to make sure nothing nasty hitched a ride home in our soul gem or something. If you wanna stick it to him, start quoting his own regulations at him chapter and verse.

>>38192767We just came out from a mission where we had to rescue someone that came in contact with a Golden Weapon. And now we're being ordered to leave the Golden Weapons when WE are the only ones that can handle them with any sort of safety.

>>38192851>WE are the only ones that can handle them with any sort of safety.We are the only Magical Girl that can handle them safely.QB can handle them just fine and they don't affect him because he's not a human.So your entire argument is nothing but bullshit.

Ahriman saw her impending doom, and did a self-destruct attack. Yuma saw what was happening and intervened. That expenditure of anti magic was too much for her between all the teleports and stuff, and she died.

>>38192938>>38192954Yuma died because of 2 factors:1. 6 teleports instead of her limit of 5 (teleports can't be staggered; she can teleport safely only 5 persons, Kyouko's gem still counts, and Tiny Pete/Rea don't count because Tiny Pete had his own teleporter).2. Ahriman self-destructed her soul in a last-ditch effort to kill Chiaki, Kirika, and Oriko. Yuma took the magic blast that was meant for us.

QB was helping Yuma magically. With his help, she could have handled 6 teleports or the Ahriman explosion, but not both.

It wouldn't be this bad if that was all. It's likely our transformation from what Oriko did to our gem that's causing the shitstorm. We as Chiaki might not know any significance to our appearance except that it looks like TTO, but chances are there are people who know the Blessed Lady-related legends and religion who will recognize Chiaki as the Devil now. Like Ahriman wanted.

We're going to have to stay out of sight for awhile or there will be Officios that will attempt to use this to their advantage.

>>38193103From thread 257:What about the wings? You wince slightly as you hear how suddenly defensive of them you sound. They're cool. Wendy said so...." Sayaka narrows her eyes, before shaking her head once more. "Nothing. Just feels weird seeing you with those things, that's all." Something in her voice tells you that she's keeping something back, as if deciding better than to speak her mind. "A-anyway. Let's get the fuck out of here, yeah? We've got the main objective secured, that means we can go home, right?"Remember this? Sayaka knows something about the TTO, so is possible that more people knows something. Also, during the TTO interview, she herself admitted to have agents in the officios

>>38193140I think a big part of it is the abysmal disconnect between pacing and scheduling. The threads are just so slow for how often they run and it makes people freak out.

If you read it in the archives, none of it looks that bad. Every time I take a break from the quest and come back, I'll get to a part and be all "Oh, I vaguely remember that this date is around the time people were freaking about how STUPID BAD SHIT happened" but I'll read it and it's just like "People were freaking out this much over that?"

I'm a little more fond and confused at people who vote for the "happening" choices just for the sake of "happenings"', yet once something bad results from it they immediately vote for something that'll reverse or mitigate the consequences of voting for said choice.

>>38193188Another incredible idea is to kill that civvie that was spying on us in the idol mission. She's nothing but trouble. In fact, we should take her skull and put it on a spike at the officio entrance.

>>38193308How is it stupid when he can handle the Golden Weapons safely, and he has a hazmat team able to safely handle them?Did you forget that besides QB himself being able to handle the GW's without being corrupted, that he had an entire science team go over the Golden Desert Eagle and Muramasa without them going berserk, so he has ways to handle them without us?Or are you just a fucking retard?

You shake your head. "No," You tell Kyuubey, and by extension, the entire room. "I'm not going to do that."

Beside you, you hear Sayaka let out a small sigh. "Chiaki." She hisses your name again - your real name - and it's here that you realize that she'd been doing so all along. Not 'Murderface', not 'you fucking dildo' - but Chiaki.

You would've smiled at this if things weren't so fucked up at the moment.

"Please just fucking play along." The blue-haired Eversor pleads between gritted teeth. "Please don't make me fucking call in the entire rank to put down their Warmaster. For the love of fucking Christ, just drop the fucking things--"

You shake your head at her, before turning to face Kyuubey again. "They're mine," You say loudly, willing yourself to sound as even and as calm as you possibly can, even if every cell in your body is screaming at you to take action. "And I don't trust anyone else with them. More on that, I'm not willing to let another human touch these godforsaken things, either. So I'm going to put all of them back in the vault on the way to my cell."

At this, you turn to leave the Incubator's Office, your wings unfurling with your movement. "Either take them from me to put them away yourself, or watch me do it."

Silence. Stark, numbing silence, one only interrupted by your own heels as you continue to make your way towards the door. Sayaka cursing underneath her breath before following you a moment later, the Eversor quickly catching up with you in a couple of strides.

Just before you could reach the double doors itself, it's here that Kyuubey speaks. "Fine. Miki Sayaka, please ensure that Matsuda leaves all of the Golden Weapons in the Vault. Confiscate her keycard to it right after, and then escort her to Silent Room Regalia."

>>38193353You're missing the point. Kyubey is panicking and being emotional, we're being logical. This is just a way to show how we've essentially swapped roles and we're out incubatoring the incubator.

"Understood, Incubator." You hear Sayaka murmur, a rustle of cloth indicating a perfect salute. It's then that you feel her hand on your shoulder. "Come on, Murderface. Let's get you out of here--"

"SEMPAI!"

A shouted call, followed by the sound of running footsteps, and you turn just in time to have your face buried in a soft, warm chest encased in a tear-stained hoodie. Arms, just as soft and just as warm as the marshmallowy hell you're being slowly smothered with, wraps around you in an embrace.

You feel your wings bristling as you frantically pat Midori's arm. Alright, alright, you get it, you get the concept, you're tapping out! You can't breathe!

A moment later, and your Callidus finally lets you go - and when she does, you see that she's trying her hardest not to break down in front of you. She'd already been shedding tears earlier, you've pointed that out already - but it seems that there's so much more being held back, probably because of what's happening at the moment.

Not every day the person you love turns into a monster and gets sent to monster bitch jail, you think.

>>38193400Except we're not.If anything, he's being emotional by giving us even this chance. Logic would have dictated having us neutralized as soon as we came back from the Akashic Realm.By all the actions we've taken so far, we've shown that we're compromised, and any other Incubator would have has us retired.So, if we're going to be more Incubator than QB, we have to order that Chiaki Matsuda be terminated. You can't go through with it because the entire idea is stupid.

>>38193440>>38193464We appear in his office with a burnt out culexus and dressed as the devil, and the first thing he does is strip us of rank, imprison us, and force us to drop the GWs with no regard of putting them away safely or the fact that there is an very emotional Harkua nearby that wouldn't think twice about grabbing one to kill us.He's not thinking things through, he's just going full damage control.I'd say that's panicking as far as incubators go.

>>38193558No, that's a really stupid thing to say to a person, when they not only know we lose our memories and can become someone else st the drop of a hat, but even had saw that actually happen to us back in Siberia when we became some other person when we lost our memories there after the operation.

>Everyone assume Kyuubs can handle the Golden Weapons just fineHe may have done this well enough in the past, but let's not discount the chance that as we collect more and grow in power, they might become more dangerous for other living beings to be near.We might not be able to easily rely on assumptions like "these horrific corrupting weapons are totally safe in X situation"

>>38193748His hazmat team here was able to test the Golden DEagle and Muramasa without undergoing the operation just fine.Magical Girls need the operation to wield the Golden Weapons, but that doesn't mean that it's needed for a bunch of regular humans handling the things with a pair of pliers.

>>38193936>>38193939Kilgore took the Bangles from You, not us. And she was traveling around the world, and wasn't part of our Officio.

Oriko got the Staff from Ahriman, who stayed inside of it and had her followers keep possession of it.

How the fuck is that in any way equivalent to dropping the Golden Weapon in QB's office in reach of QB?

That's like saying that dropping weapons in a president's office where he can call security to safely handle the weapons is the same as getting them taken off of our drugged out body, or having a weapon given to someone when we never had possession of the weapon in the first place.

"Very well." Kyuubey nods as it sits down on its haunches, tail flicking from side to side - managing to avoid Misaka's multiple grasping attempts, before the arms dealer finally stomps off in annoyance, clearly fuming. "Through intensive analysis, I've come to some very interesting conclusions. This may be a bit long-winded, but please bear with me."You'll bear with it, all right. Just as you're bearing with the uncomfortably frilly underwear you're wearing under the heavy starched skirts. Did maids really wear black frilly panties WITH garter belts?Kyuubey makes a small noise, akin to clearing its throat, before it starts. "As they are, the golden weapons seem to be unremarkable. Both of them can be disassembled into their component parts easily, and snap together just as easily without issues. Identified chemically, they are made up of the same material as their non-golden counterparts. Perfectly identical, down to the very last molecule. Nothing extraordinary - except, of course, when you use them."Kyuubey places a forepaw on the floor, a circle of light etching itself on the marble, and it's then that the Golden Desert Eagle manifests in that circle itself, complete with a white snakeskin holster."Think of it like a...secret weapon in a videogame. Everything else is normal about it, except for a few parameters. It hits harder, it reloads faster, and it doesn't seem to jam no matter what we do. The same with the sword - it cuts with a molecule-thin edge, and it doesn't seem to dull no matter what we cut with it." Kyuubey looks at you. "We used machinery to do these tests, of course, so there's no risk of corruption."

This discussion should've been ended right after Decu's update, but, since you persist, let me spell it out for you.

Does dropping three high-powered, lethal magical girl weapons on the floor - IN EASY REACH OF HARUKA, WHO HAS JUST MADE IT CLEAR THAT SHE HOLDS US RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING HER ONLY FRIEND, WHO'S EMPTY SHELL SHE IS CURRENTLY WEEPING OVER - sound like a good fucking idea?

>>38194021Jesus fucking Christ, you don't get it.The point, that you made >>38193822 was that>His hazmat team here was able to test the Golden DEagle and Muramasa without undergoing the operation just fine.Which A, didn't exist (see >>38194030, it was all machines)and B, the point that CIVILIANS AREN'T SAFE FROM THEM, hence bringing up Kilgore and Oriko.

>implying anyone would pay her any note>implying she'd have to move on them immediately

The vital thing here is that Chiaki putting the weapons in the vault directly is guaranteed to be safe - they're in the vault. Dumping them on QBs floor leaves a window of oppertunity open while he whistles up his hazmat team and their pliers and their gizmos or whatever the fuck.

>>38194165So all you proved was that QB has machines to move the weapons, so that they can be moved safely without us, and as shown in >>38194030, he moves them around by teleporting them with magic circles, meaning that as soon as they're on the ground he teleports the weapons to the Vault.

>>38194215Large participation from the audience, lots of friction between voters, rampant shadow runs and loads of plot important stuff going on. I'd be honestly more flabbergasted if everyone was civil.

You look up at Midori and nod. Yeah, of course. You're still you. The same dildo she said goodbye to earlier before the op started. You're just cosplaying as a fucking slut at the moment - it'll go away on its own soon enough.

Despite being close enough to tears that they're already dripping down her cheeks - just an errant hiccup would most likely make her break down - Midori manages a shaky, breathy giggle here. "S-sempai, please don't...i-it doesn't really look that bad, you know?" She shakes her head, before gesturing to the bone-white pinions folded up against your back. "T-they...they look really pretty. And the stockings kinda have a neat design on them..."

Yeah? Well, you're not really seeing it. But yeah, you'll get back to your old costume soon enough. You're not going to be stuck like this forever. Definitely not. You'll kill as many people as you need to in order to make that a reality.

"..." Midori smiles once more, and you can't help but feel bad for lying to her like this. Still, she seems like she's feeling better. That's the important thing right now.

"Alright. Hate to be the dildo here, but I really have to take Murderface to her Silent Room, Hanegawa." Sayaka says as she gently ushers you forward, her voice apologetic. Midori blinks, before hastily bowing - profusely apologizing for her outburst earlier. Sayaka waves her apologies off as she pushes you through the doors.

"I'll visit every day!" Midori shouts back after you. "I'll...I'll bring everything you need over there, sempai! I promise--"

The doors to Kyuubey's office slide shut, cutting off the rest of Midori's farewell. Leaving you and Sayaka outside in the empty hall, the night sky peeking through the windows. ...Huh. So that trip to the Akashic Realm took the entire day, huh?

"Looks like it." Sayaka murmurs, reaching up behind her neck to fiddle with her collar there - and you see her unclasp something metallic before pulling her cape right off. Leaving her with her shoulders bare, free to display the scars that she'd earned as an Eversor.

She shakes the garment briefly - and the blood and grime and dirt coating the white cloth simply vanishes. You make to ask what she's doing, somewhat entranced by the fact that you'd never seen her take it off in person - but you're stopped by her draping the warm, soft garment over your shoulders, letting it drape down and over your wings. And your dress. Hiding them from view.

"Second time I'm letting you use my fucking cape," Sayaka murmurs underneath her breath, securing the clasp around your neck in a somewhat loose fit. It's secure, however. "Don't get spoiled. I just don't want the others to see you before we have an explanation for all of this."

You'll try your best not to get spoiled, you tell her, grateful for the gesture. You pull the cape closer to yourself as you head for the elevators, side by side. Heading to your new 'apartment'.

"I...I never got to thank you properly for what you did back there." The blue-haired Eversor says after a moment. "You know. When I fucked up."

...Yeah, she didn't. She was too busy calling you names, then. Calling you a fucking casual.

"And you could've told Kyuubey about it, too, just earlier. When this is all happening." Sayaka shakes her head. "If you did, I'd...probably be in the same shit as you, Murderface. So...thanks. I owe you."

How do you respond?

[]It's fine. I'll take my payment in booze, smuggled in with my chair. And pancakes.[]Never mind that. Kyoko going to be alright?[]Stay silent. You're her prisoner, remember? You don't need to talk to your captors.

Vita the Ever-Bleeding, Champion of Khorne02/20/15(Fri)13:11:24No.38194392

>>38194295>>[1]It's fine. I'll take my payment in booze, smuggled in with my chair. And pancakes.>>[2]Never mind that. Kyoko going to be alright?"When all this is over and nothing but a bad dream, we need to get falling down drunk, the three of us. Remember the good times. The times when things were much less bullshit-laden than now."

>>38194295>[x] No no, see, this way the acting warmaster is a person you have something on, instead of someone insufferably perfect like Mami. Give you more leverage, see.>[x] What, you were just joking. Jeez, she needs to lighten up. After all you've done for her too.

Vita the Ever-Bleeding, Champion of Khorne02/20/15(Fri)13:29:37No.38194718

All this talk about relationship points has made me wonder... Will Chiaki ever get some booty? After all the shit she has been through, she really needs someone to bed her and make her forget everything for a moment.

>>38194626>Ruri changes her theme to metal and goth techno right after she stops cumming from the sigh of winged Murderface>the duo tours worldwide under QB's orders>Murderface is always portrayed as being tsundere for Ruri>Chiaki kneecaps all the involved artistsMake it happen.

Chiaki as a baker in Yaketake JapanChiaki as a Ninja in NarutoChiaki as a Soldier in HellsingChiaki as a Shinigami in BleachChiaki as a Cure in PreCureChiaki as a Fleet Admiral or Pirate in One PieceChiaki as a Trainer in PokemonChiaki as a Pilot in Mobile Suit GundamChiaki as a Captain in Outlaw StarChiaki as a hero in training in Hero AcademyChiaki as a Survival Games club member in that show with the airsoft guns & lesbians, Subagabu

>>38194890I think you should read EVERY thread. I now realize, thanks to you, that there are people who don't follow this quest on a threadly basis; and this explains lots of the retarded votes we see now and then. (Please fon't take this "retarded votes" thing personally, I don't know if you vote retarded stuff, just that you are a little uninformed on some things and maybe a lot of voters too)

You shake your head. It's fine, you tell her. But if she's that eager to repay you, then you'll take your payment in booze, smuggled in with your favorite chair. And pancakes, of course.

Sayaka frowns at this and opens her mouth, seemingly getting ready to quote directly from the Magical Girl Primer and how it's against the rules to do that for a Silent Room occupant - but she shakes her head instead, a smile curling her lips. "You know what? Fine. I'll smuggle them in myself. I'll let Midori handle the pancakes, though - I could never get the hang of making them."

...If she's willing to do that for you, then why didn't she speak up for you earlier? Sayaka knows you're not what they think you are. What Kyuubey suspects you are.

"I know," Sayaka says wretchedly. "And I will. When Kyuubey starts his deliberations, I'll be the first one to speak in your defense." She shakes her head. "But we gotta do things by the book, Murderface. Did you see how fucking spooked the cat bastard was? And Haruka making a fucking scene didn't exactly fucking help any." Anotherh sigh, followed by a shrug of well-developed shoulders, the play of her muscles there almost hypnotizing to look at.

. "We do this by the book. Only way to do it without stepping on too many toes and ruffling too many feathers. Trust me on this, Murderface, this is how it usually goes, and once they find out you're clear, you'll be back in your Office in no time."

Hnh. Fine. You shake your head. What about Kyoko? Is she going to be alright?

Sayaka nods. "Yeah. We got her to the Venenum just in time. Her Soul Gem's already being purified, and once that's done Kyuubey will personally make her a new body." She draws out something from her Inventory - it's Kyoko's eyepatch, somewhat scorched and caked with blood. "It should take a few days for her at the least. Gives me time to clean this up."

magicalgirlnoir.com is an archive of a good deal of the MGNQ threads with mostly Decu's posts there. It's a good place to get started, since it runs continuously until some of the more relatively recent threads. It's an easier read, and you don't even have to get to read Anon bickering!

We can hear all about how Braids was totally right and rubbing it in their faces later. For now, we have to make sure the cooby wooly doesn't have more reason to keep us in containment for any longer than he has to.

>>38195031There's also the linked pdf and ebook, which lets you get some art and skip all the Anon too.I think it's updated to the latest thread, but the last time I read the pdf was back on the big shell, when I missed a thread.

>>38195079Don't have to archive binge! Just take it a little at a time. Need to unwind before sleep? Take a read for 20 min or so. Highly disappointed or bored with all the releases on Steam or on TV? Pick up your tablet and read, instead!

>>38195129Your .rtf or whatever plain-text format you're using was screwed up for the first archive of the ebook, by the way. It's got the same file as in the second archive rather than the proper one for the first chunk of threads.

>>38195354And this decision will be the subject of many shadowruns over the next few threads, including such gems as:>Mami took the GWs and betrayed us!>Haruka stole them and went batshit insane!>Misaka tried melting them down and giving Tiny Pete golden armor!>Wendy used the DEagle to masturbate!>Haruka found Yuma in the staff and used it to masturbate!>Kharn came back out of retirement and tried to make the 9th sluttier than Nero and the 14th!

Risa came to us, from outside the room. Seems to be a unique Risa-thing though. At least we know that's possible, provided Risa could communicate with us and break out of the vault. That would take time though.

>>38195083It's like in games like KOTOR where you have dialogue options of "I won't cause trouble" and "[Lie] I won't cause trouble". The homudevil inside us made it clear that she thinks she's the one in charge, back when we first snapped out of it. So not only are we amnesiac, we've got a headmate vying for dominance.

>>38195476>Misaka tried melting them down and giving Tiny Pete golden armor!If everyone else is using the GWs to masturbate, does this mean that Misaka is diving into their vaginas to retrieve the weapons?

You didn't. You don't need it right now. Besides, what Sayaka said makes sense - if you just keep your head low and do things by the book, then you'll be reinstated before you get a chance to miss paperwork.

With the Golden Weapons safely locked inside your vault and your keycard in Sayaka's hands, you're then escorted to your new 'apartment' - Silent Room Regalia, where Kharn herself had been imprisoned days before she turned into the Betrayer. Days before Walpurgisnacht.

All Silent Rooms, by design, are unwelcoming, sterile things of steel and cold, stale air. You've always hated being in one, and made that particular tidbit of information clear to Sayaka. The Eversor simply shrugged.

"It's only going to be a couple of days, Murderface." She says as she ushers you in. "Just let Kyuubey do his job and we'll do ours, and you'll be back as our Emperor Dildo soon enough."

The Eversor blanches at that. "No thanks, Murderface. Keep the fucking hat and greatcoat and everything that comes with it. Eversor Rank Leader's enough for me. Equerry's a treat, but Warmaster?" She shakes her head, before stepping back across the Silent Room's threshold. "Not for all the money in the world."

Heh. Alright, then. She remembers what she promised you?

"Yeah. Leave it to me." It's here, then, that she starts to key in a series of numbers on the keypad set at the outer door of the Silent Room. "I'll make sure to visit you whenever I can, too. Kyoko's probably going to be here once she's up on her feet and never leave, so there's that."

>>38195818Have you read the previous threads? The clara dolls are like agents of TTO. We have benn visited in a dream by then, and they killedc Midori. Now, this shit is real, so we are going to be penetrated very hard

The reason why I'm taking two weeks off is not only because I want a break, but I also want to do some auditing on the writeups that has been written and published for the story.

As you all know, I'm really happy with everyone doing writeups for MGNQ, and that never changes. But as I have been made aware, there are some stuff that I need to re-examine and re-fit instead of just declaring everything as canon. It's my fault, not the writefags, because I tend to get carried away, hahaha!

So what is going to happen is this: writefaggotry is going to be put on hold for the moment. I'll be auditing everything myself and making sure that stuff that has already been published fits the tone and the universe I envisioned for MGNQ. Some stuff will be cut, some stuff will remain. But not 'cut' entirely like deleted or anything - they're still there, just declared noncanon. The authors are free to continue their writeups as they like!

So there we go! Reactions, violent or otherwise, please send them to me!

>>38196318I think the reason he feels the need to review the write-ups is that they're more than 500,000 words of story written by a ton of people who are not him, all working semi-autonomously, and the idea that he was previously willing to declare everything under that umbrella totally 100% canon forever was absurd to begin with.